{"id":6933,"date":"2014-02-10T10:53:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T02:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=6933"},"modified":"2014-02-11T11:16:08","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T03:16:08","slug":"waytha-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/waytha-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Waytha resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6934\" style=\"width: 426px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/waytha.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6934\" class=\" wp-image-6934\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\" title=\"waytha\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/waytha.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"416\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/waytha.jpg 594w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/waytha-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/waytha-251x175.jpg 251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 416px) 100vw, 416px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6934\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Waythamoorthy (right) and his brother Uthayakumar (left) during happier times. Also pictured here is V. Ganapathy Rao<\/p><\/div>\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR (10 Feb): Persatuan Hindraf Malaysia (PHM) chairperson P Waythamoorthy has stepped down as deputy minister in the Prime Minister&#8217;s Department\u00a0in light of the \u201cfailure\u201d and \u201cbetrayal\u201d of the government to assist Indians of poor economic standing.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released by\u00a0PHM secretary P Ramesh, Waythamoorthy\u00a0apologised to the Indian community for his \u201cfailure\u201d in making their lives better.<\/p>\n<p>It remains unclear whether or not Waytha has relinquished his position as a Senator, Senate president Abu Zahar Ujang was unable to confirm the same.<\/p>\n<p>PHM is a splinter group from the original Hindu Rights Action Force (HINDRAF) movement which organised a wave of anti-government protests in 2007. During the May 2013 general election, PHM signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) pledging support to Barisan Nasional. Waytha was subsequently appointed a deputy minister.<\/p>\n<p>The original Hindraf group is still led by his brother, P Uthayakumar, who is serving a two year sentence for a sedition charge he refused to contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR (10 Feb): Persatuan Hindraf Malaysia (PHM) chairperson P Waythamoorthy has stepped down as deputy minister in the Prime Minister&#8217;s Department\u00a0in light of the \u201cfailure\u201d and \u201cbetrayal\u201d of the government to assist Indians of poor economic standing. In a statement released by\u00a0PHM secretary P Ramesh, Waythamoorthy\u00a0apologised to the Indian community for his \u201cfailure\u201d in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6935,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6933\/revisions\/6935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}